Hello 2008/7/12 Martín Marqués <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm trying to make a PL function to pass from an alphanumeric string > to a numeric one changing the chars in the string to it's ORD (the > inverse of the chr function) and I'm stumbling with two problems: > > 1) How to know if the CHAR is numeric or not. > 2) If it's not numeric I want to get it's ord, but I can't find > something like that in PG. > postgres=# select '1' between '0' and '9'; ?column? ---------- t (1 row)
postgres=# select 'a' between '0' and '9'; ?column? ---------- f (1 row) postgres=# select ascii('7') - ascii('0'); ?column? ---------- 7 (1 row) Regards Pavel Stehule > Any ideas? > > -- > Martín Marqués > select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com' > DBA, Programador, Administrador > > -- > Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql > -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql